Any one know where I might be able to find trim for the windshield and door windows for the Deb. CD-2, built in Sept of 59. Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Hi, can anyone tell me where I can find historically accurate blue prints and manuals for the Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft. I am interested in scale model building. thanks. Iskandar

Ok this thread is completely unrelated to aircraft repairing or flying in general... maybe there is a commonality in that there is a kind of flying that I perform all the time. There are a pair of skates that I use all the time since 2001. They are made by a company called Salomon and they are...

A friend has decided to sell his two Johnson Rocket 185 project aircraft. One has been stripped down and the fuselage primed with epoxy and painted. That plane needs a rebuilding of the cockpit area, as the previous owner butchered that area in an attempt to make a homebuilt. The other plane is...

I've been asked to post this here from a customer who thought that my business would be a good resource for hard to find airplane key blanks. I specialize in key blanks and have a lot of common and very hard to find airplane keys including ACS and Cessna blanks. If you are looking for a...

My old project plane has working flap but it appears pin for hinge is corroded and stuck. Flap needs to be removed for access to rear main gear bracket. I can't get a grip on holding the pin and pulling or twisting. Being cheap , would rather not cut the pin into small removable pieces as a...

Hey. I don't know which group I saw the subject in so I'm responding to all three I could think of. This is from the Aero-News Network, a snippet from a longer article about an effort to build operational replicas of pre-WW2 Russian planes... ...as previously reported in Aero-News, a fire...

I have a wingtip float for a WW2 vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane. I'd like to hear everyone's off the cuff opinion of what it should sell for. I want to sell it for something at least in the ball park of its value and not essentially give it away. Its major flaw is that a large section of the...

What type of primer/sealer is the best and easiest to apply before applying the color coat on aircraft sheetmetal? Thanks for any info.

Hi, I'm working on a restoration of a North American P-51H Mustang at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum. Our efforts are producing a lot of general and detail photos that we can't post on the website. (www.aeromuseum.org link Mustang Restoration Project) If anyone has an interest, I'd be happy to...

First, I normally reside in rec.av.mil. Hopefully I'm not violating the group charter by asking my question here. Several months ago someone offered an F/A-18 fuselage for sale on Ebay. If I recall correctly it was in Olathe KS. A hard drive crash lost the seller's name from my bookmarks. Does...

does anyone know of the location of a Blohm and Voss BV141B that survived ww2? have a friend interested in building one and wondered whether any still existed. thanks Stealth Pilot Australia.

I have a Lawrance L-64 radial engine 5 cylinder that I believe was used as an APU in the B-29?? It has a tag attached that stated it was prepared for storage in 1948. (it is a little hard to read) This link has a photo of a similar motor: http://www.powerofthepast.org/lawrance_l64.jpg Does...

Most technical artists render the leading edge of wartime Bristol radial engine cowlings a copper-bronze colour. Several wartime colour photographs (of the Vickers Wellington etc) show this same effect. The 'Halifax' restoration/reproduction at the Yorkshire Air Museum has it's Hercules engine...

I am looking for design criteria for twin tails vs. conventional. For instance, what is the usual ratio of area for twin vertical fins vs. a single one--1:1? If anyone knows this ratio for the Ercoupe early models vs the M-10, that might be helpful. Any old aeronautical design books deal with...

I'm thinking of trying to sell a tailhook from a WW II era F-4U Corsair. Is this a good list to post on? If not could someone make a suggestion where a good place to post would be? Obviously its a pretty limited market but would like to see it so to someone who can really use it. Thanks for your...

Folks - I am in the midst of an annual on my 1953 TriPacer, and my mechanic has a question I am unable to answer. The yoke shows about 3/32" of movement on the jackscrew. Is there a criterion for max play in the stab adjustment system? If so, what is it? TIA! Sam Staton PA-22-150

Finishing a 3/4 scaled replica of P51D Mustang (MJ77), I would like to know where I could find detailed maintenance markings of this aircraft when used by the USAAF . Thank you very much. Serge

In "The Aviator" HH arrives at the beach in a really cool looking seaplane and later teaches Katharine Hepburn to fly in the same plane. Does anybody know if that was a restoration, or replica of an actual seaplane from that era? And which one? -- FF

Has anyone got or knows of someone who would be willing to donate a Harvard/Texan Vol 3. I am part of a group restoring a very dilapidated Harvard to static condition with generous donations of parts from various groups but 90% we cann't identify or have any idea where or how they assemble on the...